An enterprise wants to create their own list of skills and use them as search facets in reports. What type of skills can they create to accomplish this?

Maintained Skills are a customer-defined, curated list of skills that an organization creates and manages directly within their Workday tenant. This type of skill allows an enterprise to establish a standardized skills vocabulary specific to their industry or organization. A primary function of creating a maintained skills list is to use it consistently across talent processes, including configuring them as searchable facets in custom reports to analyze workforce capabilities.

B. Skills Cloud skills: These are skills from Workday's extensive, machine-learning-curated ontology. The enterprise uses them but does not create or own this list.
C. Crowdsourced skills: These are skills added by individual workers to their own profiles. They are not part of a centrally created and managed list for reporting facets.
D. Synonymous skills: This is not a type of skill but a relationship. It's a feature used to map a variant skill (like a crowdsourced one) to a canonical skill (Maintained or Skills Cloud).

1. Workday

Inc. (2023). Workday Talent and Performance Configuration Guide. Section: Setting Up Skills and Experience.

This guide details the configuration of different skill sources. It specifies that "Maintained Skills" are created and managed by the customer to build a custom skill catalog. It further explains that these skills can be enabled as search facets for reporting purposes.

2. Workday

Inc. (2023). Workday Community Documentation: Understanding Skill Types. Article ID: talentskillsoverview.

This document explicitly differentiates the skill types. It defines Maintained Skills as "a list of skills that you create and maintain for your organization." It contrasts this with Skills Cloud skills

which are provided by Workday

and Crowdsourced skills

which are entered by end-users.

3. Workday

Inc. (2022). Skills Cloud Administration Guide. Section: Integrating Custom Skills.

This guide explains how customer-created skills (Maintained Skills) can coexist and interact with the Workday Skills Cloud. It highlights the use case for creating Maintained Skills for company-specific or niche competencies that are then used for internal analytics and reporting.